Monday, March 29, 2010

2 stores, 3 great days and 4 excellent tutors!! All meals, linen provided in comfortable idyllic surroundings. Challenges and Prizes up for grabs!! Cost $200. Contact diva@scrappinbitz.com.au for more details.

Sale on Bazzill - coloured cardstock out for 50c. Excludes White, Black, Kraft and shaped..........................so get in quick!!!

Friday, March 26, 2010

Anne Patterson(My DT member for 'From Screen 2 Scrap) sent me a Lil Miss bright side award. Please visit Annes blog, she has some great layouts to share with you all. Cheers Shazza

There are a few rules that I will need to follow to accept this award:

1. List the top 10 things that make me happy2. List 5 trivia things about myself.3. Share the award with only 5 people and ask them to do the same4. Link the blogs you choose and link the blog of the person who gave it to you!!

Alrighty then, here's my list of 10 things that make me happy

1. Scrapping...of course!2. Visiting my family3. Travelling overseas4. Catching up with my two older boys!5. Having drinks with the girls from work :)6. Going shopping with DD Jenna7. Reading my favourite magazine - 'Cloth, Paper, Scissors'8. Blue vein Cheese and biscuits mmmmmm9.Spending time with my partner10. Going to IMAX to see a great movie!

5 Trivia things

1. I hate food shopping!2. I participate in Flylady!3. I have always wanted to learn to play guitar4. I am a fan of Survivor (TV show)5. I dressed up my son Jarred (When he was little) as a Koala and stuck him in the fork of a gum tree for a photo shoot :)

I would like to pass this award to the following five ladies......

Chris Weiss - A lovely lady whom I met on 'Soul Scrappers' who has an incredible scrappy talent! and winner of AMC2 'About Me' challenge

Mary Steinmetz - Another lovely lady whom I met on 'Soul Scrappers', who has done some fantastic entries for the challenges lately :) and winner of AMC5 'About Me' challenge

Sunday, March 21, 2010

This is Gwens challenge: Your challenge is (enter theme music from Mission Impossible here) to create a 2 page coordinating layout and use Rub Ons for your technique. Let's see you get creative, it can be subtle like mine or over the top. I know you have them in your stash, so let's get them out and get busy!

This is my first page:

and my second page:

The TC6 challenge is to create a 2 page coordinating layout and use Rub Ons for your technique.

I created my matching pages by using all the 'Soul Sisters' avatars and using all my odd rub ons of letters from different packets to give everyone their names.

I also made a 'Soul Sister' banner similar to the one Erika made for for the 'Soul Scrappers' site.

This is my monthly submission for Scrap that Poetry, we had to use an Irish Blessing!

May the road rise to meet youMay the wind always be at your backMay the sun shine warm upon your face,The rains fall soft upon your fieldsand until we meet againMay God hold you in the hollow of his hand~traditional gaelic blessing

What a beautiful Irish Blessing this is...... as soon as I had read it over a few times, I already had an idea forming inside my head. I wanted to scrap a page of 'something' in God's hands. I eventually made a flying heart and adorned it with little pics of me and some tiny embellishments just big enough to fit into the hollow of God's hand. My partner 'Hasan' was my hand model lolI printed out the poem in assorted fonts........I'm really pleased how this has turned out.

Sunday, March 14, 2010

Here is the layout that Chris Weiss (my photo swap partner) did of the photo I sent her of Duke our new baby Chihuahua . This was for a photo swap at 'Soul Scrappers'

This is the photo I sent her of Duke:

This is the page Chris made for me in the Photo Swap....this is our little Chihuahua, Duke....isn't he precious?

She has a challenge going on on her ARTastic Challenge Blog to use Art Nouveau...so, I followed the criteria and I used a cut out photo, put a halo of flowers and used Art Nouveau designs in the layout! LOL! I think it turned out pretty darned cute! :) - Chris Weiss

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This is just gorgeous Chris, you've done such a great job, the colors are just beautiful :)........... he is very precious!!I love how you did the letters for his name and all your Art Nouveau designs . - Shazza

I used a photo of her daughter Audri (Audriana), in her tap dancing outfit in Jan 2007, she was 5 years old.

This is the photo I used:

As soon as I saw the photo of Audri in her tap dancing outfit I knew exactly that it would suit a 'Cabaret' page. I called the layout 'Cabaret Kid'.The fact that Audri was sitting on the stairs was just perfect as I changed the first line of the song to say......'What good is sitting alone on your stairs?.... instead of....'What good is sitting alone in your room?I made a little stage for her to perform on with red velvet curtains (lol) and floodlights at the front of the stage. I also gave her top 'billing' and added her name, date and age to her tag at the top of the stage. A little black cabaret hat was just the right embellishment to finish it off. I hope you like it and more importantly I hope Audri likes it too, although she is probably not that familiar with the 'Cabaret' song :)

Here is my layout for Marisa's challenge at 'Soul Scrappers', although not a digi page I still wanted to join in as I really loved the criteria.

Heres Marisa's challenge:

Gosh this is my first challenge, so exciting...still trying to get use to the time difference between US and Australia...

For this challenge you have to create a digital scrapbook page using the following:

1. use a sepia photo2. have some stitching on your page3. a tag4. a flower5. at least 1 button somewhere6. have some sort of distressing {eg. paper tearing or inking}.

Although my layout is a non-digi, I still wanted to join in as I really loved the criteria :)I have covered all the criteria.......1. use a sepia photo - done2. have some stitching on your page - blanket stitch around the photo3. a tag - done4. a flower - done5. at least 1 button somewhere - hanging from the tag6. have some sort of distressing {eg. paper tearing or inking}. I distressed the small background cs (you can't see it very well, but its done :)

Wednesday, March 10, 2010

I’m sure that many of you have heard of Project 365. As a scrapbooker and someone who loves to take photos I thought that Project 365 would be just the thing for me. I took a photo each day for the first two weeks and even scrapbooked most of them. As the days went by I found that keeping up with this project was just too much for me. I love the idea of journaling my life through photos and scrapping them but I found that I did not have time enough to do it daily. So much for my Project 365 journey . I really did give it my best shot though.Recently, I read about some scrappers doing this project once a month. I’m not sure if it is called Project 12 but it sounds good to me.Here is what you do.*1*. Take one or more photos of people, places or things that you do or see in your everyday life.*2*. Do this once a month .*3*. Using your photo/photos make a scrap page and add your journaling.At the end of the year you will have 12 scrap pages to place in a book that documents your everyday life................................ by Mary

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I decided to do my 'Project 12' pages in an art journal, I'm going to use it to try out different mixed media techniques using cloth, paint, stamps, sewing, pastels etc......

This is what the journaling says:

My partner Hasan bought me a pair of Merrill footwear for work, as I am on my feet all day they are the best shoes for comfort and support!My feet love my Merrells!

I made my own background paper using a technique called 'Ghosting', if you look towards the bottom left hand corner you can see the 'ghosting affect' with the writting lifting up through the page.

Tuesday, March 9, 2010

This is an idea I came up with a few months ago and was able to showcase it on 'Soul Scrappers' where I am on the DT and an Administrator.

Here is part of the post:

I have been involved in ATC swaps, Stamped image swaps, swapping handmade embellishments and product swaps over the last two years.'Soul Scrap Quest' is an idea I have been working on over the lastmonth to incorporate all these swaps into a Scrapping Challenge andwith Erika's permission I am trialing it out on Soul Scrappers for thefirst time. If we get enough interest we will do a QUEST every threemonths. Erika will host and score/vote the next one.

What is Soul Scrap Quest?

It's FREE STUFF that can be used on a scrapbooking page.......Cool Hey!

You will be sent a pack of embellishments to use on your page. Everyonereceives the same items (color and size may vary). The conecpt is toscrap a page using all or most of these items. You can add anything youlike but you must use all or most of your FREE STUFF!

By adding you name to the list you agree to use all or most of the FREE STUFFsupplied, make a card, layout, OTP, sewn item or a mixed mediaitem.......and then upload to the gallery using the code SSQ1 in thetitle. This Quest allows you to create anything you want......

What makes this a QUEST unique..... is that until you open yourenvelope you are really not going to know what is in it, and what youare expected to use. Some of the embellies could be shop bought,painted items, stickers, stamped images, polymer clay items, metalitems, hand pieced images, handmade flowers, sewn items, felt itemsetc......... the list goes on!!

NOTE: Because this is the first 'Soul Scrap Quest' .... out of thekindness of my heart, I am posting the embellies for free however infuture you may be required to send a return stamp self addressedenvelope. Remember this is a trial, so will change depending oninterest. More ladies = return stamp addressed envelope.

The only hint you will get is the theme, so for this challenge we will scrap to the theme 'HOME SWEET HOME'

Benefit of the Quest!!1. You scrap items you may never have thought of scrapping before2. You get to see how 11 other individuals use their items and you will be amazed at all the creative ideas.3. You use techniques and ideas on your future scrap booking pages.4. Makes you think out side the square, you become more creative and arty!5. Perfect for begginers because you will learn so much

There will be a prize for the Winner, a RAK (Random Act of Kindness) donated by ShazzaOOH you say, but how do we win!!! There are some great prizes for the winners!

Heres my take on the 'Themed Challenge' at 'Soul Scrappers' hosted by Deb. Unfortunately I missed the deadline but still wanted to give this challenge a go :)

I realise I have missed the deadline but still wanted to complete a layout as I have never done a page about me or where I work.Here's me at work, mucking around in my 'Pot Aisle'.... look at all my pots and hanging baskets!

Journaling says: Shazza, mucking around in the 'Pot aisle' March 2010 ..... I love my pots!

Sunday, March 7, 2010

I have just received two Beautiful Blogger Awards from Robin J and JazzyJess two lovely ladies whom I've got to know through my ARTastic challenge blog.

Jess is a lovely lady who lives in North Charleston in the USA, she makes beautiful cards using her own designs, and has a very interesting blog, if your up for a good read:) You can get to her blog from here.

Robin has been a great supporter of ARTastic challenge blog, joining in the challenges each month. She was our November winner with her entry 'A Woman of Substance'. You can get to her blog from here.

Ok, so the rules for this award are:

1) Add a link and note of thanks to the person giving the award

2) Pass the award on to 15 bloggers whose blogs you have recently discovered that you loveI To include all the ladies, I passed this award to 16 ladies)

3) Share 7 things about yourself

I'm passing this award on to all my new Soul Sisters at Soul Scrappers. And the fantastic Erika Martin, founder and owner of Soul Scrappers, whom gives me encouragement, inspiration and the will and drive to keep scrapping up a storm.

1. I'm a cougar :) lol2. I love travelling and I'm planning an o/s holiday later in the year3. I love my little Toyota Yaris, the best car ever!4. I have fallen out of a moving train :(5. I was once a suspect in a murder investigation :( Wrong place, wrong time!6. We had a horse in a suburban house in the backyard when we were kids!7. I love my job, I work in the garden section of a huge hardware warehouse.

Thanks again Robin and Jess for thinking about me and sending me this great award... I love it!

Here is my challenge for the 'About Me' theme at Soul Scrappers this challenge will end on Tuesday March 16th, with a little prize added for the winner :)

Your challenge is to scrapbook a page about your self using the following criteria.

1. Use {me} on your page somewhere

2. Add your name to the page somewhere

3. Answer at least 5 of the following questions on your page. Remember we want to know about you as a scrapbooker!a) What is your favourite color?b) Do you like to journal and how?c) What products do you like to use?d) Tell us about your family?e) Other than scrapbooking what hobbies and interests do you have?f) On avarage, how long does it take you to complete a scrapbook page?g) Where do you scrapbook?h) How long have you been creating pages?i) Where do you get your inspiration from?j) Who or what is your favourite scrapbooking subject?

Create a scrapbook page following the challenge guidelines. Next, upload yourthe photo of your page to the Soul Scrappers Gallery using the challenge tag AMC5 in your photo tag and title. Submissions must beuploaded and tagged by 7 pm Eastern time Tuesday, March 16th. A winner will be drawn at random on Wednesday morning and added to the top of this challenge thread.

You may enter as many submissions as you like for this challenge, butplease do not submit duplicate challenge submissions. We like to seenew submissions for each challenge.

And those of you that go to the trouble to enter this challenge, will be eligible for a Random draw prize of an Easter RAK. Easter RAK consists of: a novelty easter bag, Daisy Dandelion, 'some bunny loves you' coloured stickers and Daisy Dandelion, 'some bunny loves you' A5 Paper pack.......just in time for Easter!

So hurry dont delay get your entry into today...............or as soon as possible..................................or before the deadline :)

Here is my entry for Jami's themed challenge at 'Soul Scrappers'. This challenge finishes on the 18th March, so if you would like to have a go at it you still have plenty of time :)

This is what you have to do for the challenge:

We all know that friendship is a very important thing to have and cherish in life. We get by with a little help from our friends. This challenge is to focus on your bestfriend.

Your challenge is to scrapbook a page about your Best Friend Forever (BFF).

Rules:

Title: My BFF ___________(Insert Name)

Pictures: Must include a photo with you and your best friend.

Journaling: Journal a paragraph on what you love about your best friend.

The journaling reads:My BFF (Best friend forever) is my daughter Jenna. We work together, we live together, we laugh together, we argue together lol, we do a lot together, no one else could be my BFF more than my daughter.

Here is my take on Tiffany's Sketch challenge at Soul Scrappers. This challenge ends on the 14th March so you still have plenty of time if you would like to have a go at it!!

Here is my take for Tiffany's sketch challenge. I went for a monochromatic all green layout!! I stitched around the color and b&w photo of jarred and added pom poms.The journaling says....Diamond Creek Memorial Pre-school 1991Jarred's kinder photo shoot!His teachers were Mrs Hale and Mrs Lee.

Thursday, March 4, 2010

Rhonda is a voluntary fire fighter and was out fighting fire only 3kms from her home. She sent me two fire fighting photos to use and I wanted to convey how harsh and devasting bushfires can be. The journaling says: Must remember bushfires Feb 2009. Firefighters at fire at Delburn complex, 3kms out of Mirboo North :(

Wednesday, March 3, 2010

In honor of Dr. Seuss (Theodore Geisel's) birthday on March 2nd, the poem for the month at 'Scrap that Poetry' is.......is Oh The Places You'll Go. What an absolutely wonderful poem/book that is appropriate for all ages.

My sister sent me this pic of my two nieces sitting on a pier looking out over the sea during the Christmas, New Year holidays. When I first saw the photo it put a smile on my face and I thought............. I wander what those two are thinking? ........... I wander what the future holds for those two? ............ will they still be close as cousins? ............. will they follow their dreams?This was the perfect way to showcase this photo using the inspiration from the childrens book 'Oh the Places you'll go' by Dr Seuss. I put a spin on the title and changed it too 'Oh the places you Two'll go! to include my two neices, 'Megan and Tash'

This is what the journalling says:What's in store for my two nieces, what does the future hold? Following their dreams, seeking joy, making friends and never getting old!

I thoroughly enjoyed this months poem :)

A close up below:

Oh the Places You'll Go by Dr. Seuss

Congratulations!

Today is your day. You're off to Great Places! You're off and away! You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes You can steer yourself any direction you choose. You're on your own. And you know what you know. And YOU are the guy who'll decide where to go. You'll look up and down streets. Look 'em over with care. About some you will say, "I don't choose to go there." With your head full of brains and your shoes full of feet, you're too smart to go down any not-so-good street. And you may not find any you'll want to go down. In that case, of course, you'll head straight out of town. It's opener there in the wide open air. Out there things can happen and frequently do to people as brainy and footsy as you. And when things start to happen, don't worry. Don't stew. Just go right along. You'll start happening too. OH! THE PLACES YOU'LL GO! You'll be on your way up! You'll be seeing great sights! You'll join the high fliers who soar to high heights. You won't lag behind, because you'll have the speed. You'll pass the whole gang and you'll soon take the lead. Wherever you fly, you'll be the best of the best. Wherever you go, you will top all the rest. Except when you don't Because, sometimes, you won't. I'm sorry to say so but, sadly, it's true and Hang-ups can happen to you. You can get all hung up in a prickle-ly perch. And your gang will fly on. You'll be left in a Lurch. You'll come down from the Lurch with an unpleasant bump. And the chances are, then, that you'll be in a Slump. And when you're in a Slump, you're not in for much fun. Un-slumping yourself is not easily done. You will come to a place where the streets are not marked. Some windows are lighted. But mostly they're darked. A place you could sprain both your elbow and chin! Do you dare to stay out? Do you dare to go in? How much can you lose? How much can you win? And IF you go in, should you turn left or right... or right-and-three-quarters? Or, maybe, not quite? Or go around back and sneak in from behind? Simple it's not, I'm afraid you will find, for a mind-maker-upper to make up his mind. You can get so confused that you'll start in to race down long wiggled roads at a break-necking pace and grind on for miles across weirdish wild space, headed, I fear, toward a most useless place. The Waiting Place... ...for people just waiting. Waiting for a train to go or a bus to come, or a plane to go or the mail to come, or the rain to go or the phone to ring, or the snow to snow or waiting around for a Yes or a No or waiting for their hair to grow. Everyone is just waiting. Waiting for the fish to bite or waiting for wind to fly a kite or waiting around for Friday night or waiting, perhaps, for their Uncle Jake or a pot to boil, or a Better Break or a string of pearls, or a pair of pants or a wig with curls, or Another Chance. Everyone is just waiting. NO! That's not for you! Somehow you'll escape all that waiting and staying. You'll find the bright places where Boom Bands are playing. With banner flip-flapping, once more you'll ride high! Ready for anything under the sky. Ready because you're that kind of a guy! Oh, the places you'll go! There is fun to be done! There are points to be scored. there are games to be won. And the magical things you can do with that ball will make you the winning-est winner of all. Fame! You'll be famous as famous can be, with the whole wide world watching you win on TV. Except when they don't. Because, sometimes, they won't. I'm afraid that some times you'll play lonely games too. Games you can't win 'cause you'll play against you. All Alone! Whether you like it or not, Alone will be something you'll be quite a lot. And when you're alone, there's a very good chance you'll meet things that scare you right out of your pants. There are some, down the road between hither and yon, that can scare you so much you won't want to go on. But on you will go though the weather be foul On you will go though your enemies prowl On you will go though the Hakken-Kraks howl Onward up many a frightening creek, though your arms may get sore and your sneakers may leak. On and on you will hike and I know you'll hike far and face up to your problems whatever they are. You'll get mixed up, of course, as you already know. You'll get mixed up with many strange birds as you go. So be sure when you step. Step with care and great tact and remember that Life's a Great Balancing Act. Just never forget to be dexterous and deft. And never mix up your right foot with your left. And will you succeed? Yes! You will, indeed! (98 and 3/4 percent guaranteed.) KID, YOU'LL MOVE MOUNTAINS! So... be your name Buxbaum or Bixby or Bray or Mordecai Ali Van Allen O'Shea, you're off to Great Places! Today is your day! Your mountain is waiting. So...get on your way!

About Me

I am 55yrs old. Yes! I'm an old chook!! lol I have three grown up children, two still live with me. Recently my partner 'Hasan' of 13 years passed away. I miss him so much, it's been a very sad time for me. I have been a Folk Art Painter for over 10 years and have dabbled in most Art forms from sewing, mosiacs, knitting, stamping, and all types of papercrafts etc..

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Hosted by Jane Howden - Fancy making an album full of your childhood memories to pass onto your children and/or grandchildren? Want to show them how different things were when you were young, pass on interesting family stories (or scandelous anecdotes) or just relive your glory days? This year long Soul Scrappers class will be for you !